[injeolmi_love]

There’s a very small number of mining pools that control Bitcoin. All the USA has to do to force a hard fork is order them to run alternative mining software.

[psychlops]

I guess they'd enjoy running their expensive hardware on a worthless fork while the rest of the planet used bitcoin.

[audleman]

And of course, like when China banned mining, they would simply pick up shop and move to another country. One with fewer regulatory risks.

[peyton]

Ethereum miners weren’t very successful at stopping the proof-of-stake transition. Why would Bitcoin miners be any different?